Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb mod] be say [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Both counsel and judges follow the punctilios of court procedure and conduct , and a few words may be said on these .
2 This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality .
3 A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned .
4 Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance .
5 Such organizations can be said to be poorly designed .
6 Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually .
7 These technologies could be said to be neo-Fordist — that is they make use of information technologies but within a framework determined in the Fordist era .
8 For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings .
9 The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit .
10 Many things can be said in conversation which assume a different weight when used , verbatim or otherwise , on the printed page .
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